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05.13.09

Better Place’s Battery Swap Station

“Today marks a major milestone for the automotive industry as well as Better Place,” Shai Agassi said as he unveiled the company’s battery swap system in Yokohama. “For nearly a century, the automotive industry has been…

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NY Times: In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars

A new experimental community on the outskirts of Freiburg, Germany is getting some attention for thinking outside the box, I mean car. As Elizabeth Rosenthal writes in her piece in the NY Times, the…

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Brands: Thule’s solar array

Thule, Swedish-based makers of car rack systems, has launched an impressive 318-kilowatt solar array on the roof of its Connecticut facility. The array, which consists of over 1,800 solar panels, will offset about…

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